Jihad : the trail of political Islam by Kepel, Gilles

Table of Contents: “…A cultural revolution ; Islam in the late 1960s ; Building petro-Islam on the ruins of Arab nationalism ; Islamism in Egypt, Malaysia, and Pakistan ; Khomeini's revolution and its legacy ; Jihad in Afghanistan and Intifada in Palestine ; Islamization in Algeria and the Sudan ; The fatwa and the veil in Europe -- Decline. …”


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Politics and religion in the modern world

Table of Contents: “…Politics and religion in the modern world : an overview / George Moyser -- Politics and religion in Western Europe / John Madeley -- Politics and religion in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union / Sabrina Ramet -- The Islamic world : Egypt and Iran / Glenn E. Perry -- Politics and religion in contemporary India / Ian A. …”


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Remaking women : feminism and modernity in the Middle East

Table of Contents: “…Sullivan -- The Marriage of Feminism and Islamism in Egypt: Selective Repudiation as a Dynamic of Postcolonial Cultural Politics / Lila Abu-Lughod -- Afterword: Some Awkward Questions on Women and Modernity in Turkey / Deniz Kandiyoti.…”


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Islamist radicalisation : the challenge for Euro-Mediterranean relations

Table of Contents: “…Trends in political Islam in Egypt / Ibrahim El Houdaiby -- Understanding Hamas's radicalisation / Khaled Al-Hashimi -- Trends in Salafism / Omayma Abdel-Latif -- Turkey : a sustainable case of de-radicalisation? …”


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The rule of law, Islam, and constitutional politics in Egypt and Iran

Table of Contents: “…Shiite jurists and the Iranian law and constitutional order in the twentieth century / Said Amir Arjomand -- The special courts of the clergy (Dadgah-e Vizheh-ye Ruhaniyyat) and the repression of dissident clergy in Iran / Mirjam Kunkler -- The principle of legality in the Iranian constitutional and criminal law / Silvia Tellenbach -- Constitutionalism and parliamentary struggle for relevance and independence in post-Khomeini Iran / Farideh Farhi -- The politics of property in the Islamic Republic of Iran / Kaveh Ehsani -- Legal reforms in Egypt : the rule of law and consolidation of state authoritarianism / Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron -- Appendix : selections from the 2007 amendments to the 1971 Constitution / translated by Dina Bishara -- Rule of law, ideology, and human rights in Egyptian courts / Mustapha Kamel Al-Sayyid -- Islam in Egypt's cacophonous constitutional order / Nathan J. …”


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Egypt

Table of Contents: “…Decisive dates ; Ancient Egypt ; The Ptolemaic period ; The Roman period and early Christianity ; Egypt under Islam ; Modern Egypt and Muhammad Ali -- Features. Popular culture ; A love of food ; Egyptian coffeehouses -- Places. …”


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Funding virtue : civil society aid and democracy promotion

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the burgeoning world of civil society aid / Thomas Carothers and Marina Ottaway -- Weak democracy and civil society promotion: the cases of Egypt and Palestine / Imco Brouwer -- A clash of values: U.S. civil society aid and Islam in Egypt / Mustapha Kamel Al-Sayyid -- Social movements, professionalism of reform, and democracy in Africa / Marina Ottaway -- Voicing the voiceless: foreign political aid into civil society in South Africa / Christopher Landsberg -- Democracy as development: a case for civil society assistance in Asia / Stephen J. …”


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Palestine : a four thousand year history by Masalha, Nur, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…The Philistines and Philistia as a distinct geo-political entity : Late Bronze Age to 500 BC -- The conception of Palestine in Classical Antiquity and during the Hellenistic Empires (500-135 BC) -- From Philistia to Provincia `Syria Palaestina' (135 AD-390 AD) : the administrative province of Roman Palestine -- The (three in one) Provincia Palaestina : the three administrative provinces of Byzantine Palestine (4th-early 7th centuries AD) -- Arab Christian Palestine : the pre-Islamic Arab kings, bishops and poets and tribes of Provincia Palaestina (3rd-early 7th centuries AD) -- The Arab province of Jund Filastin (638-1099 AD) : continuities, adaption and transformation of Palestine under Islam -- Between Egypt and al-Sham : Palestine during the Ayyubid, Mamluk and early Ottoman periods -- Palestinian statehood in the 18th century : early modernities and practical sovereignty in Palestine -- Being Palestine, becoming Palestine : rediscovery and new representations of modern Palestine and their impact on Palestinian national identity -- Settler-colonialism and disinheriting the Palestinians : the appropriation of Palestinian place names by the Israeli state.…”


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Palestine : a four thousand year history by Masalha, Nur, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…The Philistines and Philistia as a distinct geo-political entity: late Bronze Age to 500 BC -- The conception of Palestine in classical antiquity and during the Hellenistic empires (500-135 BC) -- From Philistia to Provincia 'Syria Palaestina' (135 AD-390 AD): the administrative province of Roman Palestine -- The (three in one) Provincia Palaestina: the three administrative provinces of Byzantine Palestine (4th-early 7th centuries AD) -- Arab Christian Palestine: the pre-Islamic Arab kings, bishops and poets and tribes of Provincia Palaestina (3rd-early 7th centuries AD) -- The Arab province of Jund Filastin (638-1099 AD): continuities, adaption and transformation of Palestine under Islam -- Between Egypt and al-Sham: Palestine during the Ayyubid, Mamluk and early Ottoman periods -- Palestinian statehood in the 18th century: early modernities and practical sovereignty in Palestine -- Being Palestine, becoming Palestine: rediscovery and new representations of modern Palestine and their impact on Palestinian national identity -- Settler-colonialism and disinheriting the Palestinians: the appropriation of Palestinian place names by the Israeli state.…”


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The spread of Islam throughout the world

Table of Contents: “…Jihād in Islam / Abd al-Salam Muhammad al-Sherif al-Alim -- Islam in Syria (ash-Shām) / Mohammad Nabih Aqil -- Islam in Bilād al-Rāfidayn (Iraq) / Abd al-Amir Hussain Amin -- Islam in Egypt, Nubia and the Sudan / Ahmad Shalaby -- The Islamization of Africa / El Hadji Ravane M'Baye -- III. …”


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A history of Islamic societies by Lapidus, Ira M. (Ira Marvin)

Table of Contents: “…From Islamic community to Islamic society : Egypt, Iraq, and Iran, 945-c.1500 -- 20. …”


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Modern Islamist movements : history, religion, and politics by Armajani, Jon

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Egyptian made : women, work, and the promise of liberation by Chang, Leslie T.

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Broadcasting change : Arabic media as a catalyst for liberalism by Braude, Joseph

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